ADAS Benchmarking Hits Market
Automotive chip companies talk about system-on-chips designed for Advanced Driving Assistance Systems all the time.
But how can the rest of us — reporters, analysts and most important, carmakers — tell one ADAS SoC from another?
Truth is, we can’t. The absence of scientific tools and benchmarks leaves little choice but to take the vendor’s word for it. Or we rely on such imperfect measures as trillion operations per second (TOPS) to compare Intel/Mobileye’s EyeQ5 with Nvidia’s Xavier,... [Lire la suite]

FREE SPACE DETECTION BY CAMERA ON REAL WORLD AREAS NEAR PARIS WITH POOR QUALITY OF BITUMEN ON THE ROAD : CRACKS, PATCHES, ...
Some companies try to detect freespace with a regular camera, without IR (SWIR etc …), without fusion with LIDAR, just because it allows low cost applications especially for aftermarket. Here is an example of the NEXYAD module RoadNex. One can see that there are a lot of cracks, patches (highlights and dark zones), and that RoadNex still detects free space in front of the car. Especially useful in... [Lire la suite]

The hard truth on insurance and telematics
Whiplash, staged accidents, Ogden, fronting, ghost broking – you name it, motor insurers have been having a rough time of it. Not only that but they have been getting it, rather ironically, ‘in the neck’ for encouraging a compensation culture in the UK that has seen claims costs spiral and premiums reach record-breaking levels.
Search and compare product listings for Motor Insurance from specialty market providers here
While Government reforms are underway to help tackle some... [Lire la suite]

What’s the difference between automated driving and ADAS?
The difference between automated driving and ADAS can be boiled down to the level of human intervention. Up to what level are drivers responsible, and from what level can cars help us? It is this threshold that separates between automated driving and ADAS.
The target of ADAS is, needless to say, to increase the scene where collisions are avoidable as much as possible. For example, surveys and classification on actual collisions have been conducted at a lot of developed... [Lire la suite]

SafetyNex selected by the French Road Safety Ministry
In the category "promotion of responsible behaviours" innovations.
SafetyNex alerts driver when risk is becoming too high, letting time to slightly slow down and avoid accident.
Read more : (French spoken, use Google to translate the page) :
https://entreprisesengagees64.info/decouvrez-les-14-nommes-pour-la-3eme-edition-du-prix-innovation-securite-routiere-2019-quelques-belles-idees-sont-en-route/

Waymo and Tesla, Same Goals Different Paths to Level 5
Waymo and Tesla both have the same goal toward fully L5 driverless self driving cars, but they differ in approach from a design and engineering philosophy. Elon Musk relies on computer vision systems that use a combination of ultrasonic, radar and camera devices. Waymo on the other hand use a very fundamental device among driverless car makers and that is LiDAR. Elon believes Tesla can rely on it’s sophisticated hardware with AI software while Waymo implements LiDAR at the... [Lire la suite]

The Hottest Tech Trends in 2019? Watch out for Smart Transportation, Smart Retail, and Smart Industry driven by Edge AI
Smart Transportation
Will this be the year that smart transportation finally takes off? As an ongoing trend, smart transportation, which encompasses everything from autonomous urban buses, trams, trains, through to the increasing volume of smart fleet and private vehicles on the roads, is very much on the rise.
In many ways smart transportation is the perfect storm, bringing together convenience for end... [Lire la suite]

futuristic AR to your bike helmet with the Argon Transform
Motorbike riders have been clamoring for an augmented reality (AR) enabled bike helmet for years, hence the long-running and infamous Skully debacle. But now Singapore-based startup Whyre have come up with a simple way to make any bike helmet smart, using an attachment which can overlay AR information on a helmet’s visor. They showed off the Argon Transform, as its known, at CES 2019 this year.
The Argon Transform is a dual-camera system which works by... [Lire la suite]

Road Safety for Cyclists and Motorists - The Ultimate Online Guide
Few subjects cause more tension than the relationship between drivers and cyclists on our roads. It is not an easy partnership, and there will always be some level of animosity between two and four wheeled road users. However whether you’re a driver, cyclist or both, one thing we do need to be on the same page about is SAFETY.
ROSPA provides the statistics on collisions involving cyclists below:
• Around 75% of fatal or serious cyclist accidents occur in urban... [Lire la suite]

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